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Unturned is a free Indie Zombie Survival Game. You can read about it and download from Steam here http://store.steampowered.com/app/304930/

If you want to join a few other furs I have a server setup, info bellow. Hope to see you on there!

Host: jacktail.furstre.am

Pass: furry

PS, Ill be live streaming a lot tonight playing it https://furstre.am/stream/jacktail

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This article was first published in 2012

In 2008, Klisoura’s furry survey asked “Would you describe yourself as an advocate of animal rights?”. 43% of you chose ‘yes’.

In surveys from 2009 onwards, Klisoura asks exactly the same question but only 27% of you choose ‘yes’. What changed?: in 2009, a new question was added on the following line: “Would you describe yourself as a vegetarian?”

This is an example of a phenomenon known in the psychology world as ‘priming’. When asked about animal rights and vegetarianism together, the thoughts of some users will have been drawn to their latest bacon sandwich and decided that, no, they weren’t an animal rights advocate.

My favourite example of priming is a study that investigated voting patterns in Arizona in the 2000 election. That year, there was a proposition to increase school funding. Support for the proposition was significantly greater when the polling station was in a school, compared to support at other nearby polling stations.

It’s natural to disbelieve the effect of priming in the furry survey, or in the Arizona school district examples. It suggests that we are all susceptible to change our opinion based our immediate surroundings. However priming is a common phenomenon and there are many examples: the science is unarguable.

The results in the furry survey could have been skewed in the other direction of course: if the question about vegetarianism were replaced by “Do you support the prosecution of negligent pet owners?”, the number of animal rights advocates would have gone up.

The large priming effect in the furry survey demonstrates two things:

1. It’s very difficult to write a survey, especially when you’re asking for opinions.
2. Many people see a link between caring for animals, and choosing to eat them. This apparently simple connection is surprisingly controversial to many people.

I am vegetarian and I’m keenly aware that nobody likes a holier-than-thou attitude. The intent of this article is not to advocate vegetarianism. So let me get a few things off my chest:

• Meat is delicious. It’s delicious because the human body has evolved to take advantage of the copious nutrients in meat.
• But you don’t need meat to be healthy. Studies of vegetarian and non-vegetarian Indian Hindus show no significant difference in life expectancy. (Western vegetarians live longer than non-vegetarians but this may be due to other lifestyle choices, such as smoking.)

Being vegetarian can be a hassle and requires vigilance. As far as I am concerned, the convenience and deliciousness of an omnivorous diet is a good enough reason to eat meat. It’s just not for me.

Some vegetarians, like me, are ethical vegetarians. These people follow the general philosophy laid out by Peter Singer in his 1975 book, Animal Liberation. Singer’s utilitarian philosophy can be summarized simply as ‘minimize harm’. An ethical vegetarian might consider their options for a meal and decide that a vegetarian pizza does less harm than a pepperoni (which does less harm, in turn, than a meatlovers).

A key premise for Singer’s philosophy is that you must believe humans to be an animal. (This may be a problem for you if you are religious and you believe that God created man in his image.) If you accept that animals are capable of suffering, then you can weigh the suffering of those non-human animals against the suffering of a human animal. This explains why it’s okay to slap a horse but not okay to slap a baby; this also explains why animal testing of medicines is a good thing.

It seems logical to me that this reasoning would be more likely to resonate with furries, people who usually identify with or as non-human animals. Furries are much less likely to consider human beings to be a special case in the animal world, and much more likely to think about animal welfare. Consider the charities supported at furry events, or the 27%+ animal rights advocates.

So is there a higher proportion of vegetarians amongst furries? No.

• About 4% of furries taking Klisoura’s survey “consider themselves to be vegetarian”.
• About 4% of people in western countries identify as vegetarian.

It’s been suggested to me that meat-eating might form an important part of the identity of a furry with a carnivorous character. This may be the case for some furries, but it’s not the case in general: analysis of survey data shows that a furry with a pure-carnivore character is just as likely to be vegetarian as a furry with a pure-herbivore character.

The key to furries and vegetarianism comes down to gender bias. Anyone reading this will be keenly aware that furry is male dominated. Survey data suggests that around 80% of furries are male. (The women are also more likely to consider themselves only ‘weakly’ furry.)

This is important because, out in the non-furry world, women are twice as likely to be vegetarian than men. (If you are male and vegetarian, like I am, the question you’ll be most often asked is “so is your girlfriend vegetarian?” The correct answer, by the way, is “I reject the premise of your question”.)

In the furry world, the same ratio holds: women are twice as likely to be vegetarian than men. If you adjust the data for this gender bias (the male:female ratio is 50:50 outside furry; 80:20 inside furry), the relationship between furry and vegetarianism looks very different.

• If you are a male furry, you are twice as likely as a male non-furry to identify as a vegetarian.
• If you are a female furry, you are twice as likely as a female non-furry to identify as a vegetarian.

It’s probable that the gap between furries and non-furries is starker still. Incredibly, a full two-thirds of non-furries who identify as vegetarian regularly eat meat and/or fish. I suspect that furries have a far stronger grasp of the definition of ‘vegetarian’.

Even so, I remain surprised that vegetarianism isn’t more common amongst furries. The logic, while not for everyone, seems straightforward to me. I wonder if there simply isn’t the critical mass for many furries to be exposed to the idea – vegetarians certainly have a reputation for being obnoxious and evangelical.

I saw Peter Singer plugging his latest book a few years ago. He talked about the publicity and positive criticism generated by Animal Liberation back in 1975, and how he expected that vegetarianism would quickly become more commonplace. He talked about his surprise that the proportion of vegetarians has remained static since then. (Not coincidentally, his new book explores the idea of the ethical omnivore.)

So perhaps I’m being naïve. As the priming example demonstrates, none of us are purely logical beings.

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So I been around the fandom for a while, and it used to be I could get art trades easily, but these days no one really cares, even with journals I can't get any replies on anything these days regardless of what its about.

Like I try being nice to people any everything but it just seems people are stuck up, I try and ask people about chatting with them on skype, and they just ignore my notes on FA. I am not going after them just to get art out of them despite no one hardly drawing me, or getting me any gift art or anything.

Like I don't ask for much, but I am wondering what's up with people these days.

So In short I need some advice on how to deal with this.

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We drive down to Montana to visit Jess E. Owen, author of the Summer King Chronicles, to talk about her experience with self publishing.
 
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Hello all. I was looking for some CLEAN, PG13 books either about anthros or ferals that I could use for my local fur group since I want to start a furry book club. I grew up reading Black Beauty, Call of the Wild, Animal Farm, Nightwing, Where the Red Fern Grows, White Fang, and all manner of animal books but I just don't know what would be good. I never even look at the books displayed at cons because I was never interested.

Any suggestions?

(Also, feel free to take this idea of a book club and run with it for your own local meetups!)

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Back from Comic Con! Give us just a few minutes to get feeling back in our feet, and we’ll get busy with our reports.

Whew! All right, here we go then… Terry Cronin is a writer, best known for his comic book series Students of the Unusual and his Skinvestigator series of detective novels. Recently, inspired by his wife Ava (who loves horses), Terry hooked up with the artists Savannah McKendree and Gary Scott Beatty to create Horse Power G, the story of a young lady named Gertrude (“G”) and her prize horse, Amber. Sounds simple enough, yes? Here’s the twist: Read the comic forwards from the front to the middle and it’s told from the humans’ point of view, but read from the back to the middle and it’s the same story from the animals’ point of view! It all meets up right in the center with a cliffhanger leading right to the next issue. Horse Power G is published in full color by 3 Boys Productions. Visit the official Facebook page to find out more.

image c. 2014 3 Boys Productions

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